Rising World

Rising World

Fair · RPG · 2014 · Early Access

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.

Cost per hourS
$0.66/hr
Reviews▼
86% of 6,038
Genre rank
Top 7% RPG

Holding it back: Early access, Reviews

Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
22.7h

Price and sales

Sales
109 on record
Typical cut
25% off
Steam low
$10.04 April 2016
Sale every
37d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $3.37 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
104 now
Cheaper than
22% of its genre
Better reviewed
88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 109 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 7 percent. It is pricier than 79 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Core Keeper ($19.99, scores 89) beats it on value, while it beats cyubeVR ($29.99, scores 46).

More about Rising World

4 of the 551 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 645 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hour$0.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds4 of 551 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

I bought this game when it first came out years ago. Despite the game being in early access for many years, there's a lot to enjoy about this game. This game is MUCH different than it was years ago. For one, its absolutely beautiful, the skybox is absolutely stunning; it really feels like you're in the game sometimes with how sensory the game is. The sound design is some of the best I've heard. The weather is also...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 32hOct 2026early accessRead on Steam
2 more reviews
There is so much to say about this game, so to not repeat most of the other reviews, I want to talk about immersion a little bit. Bear with me. Context. I play games to get immersed. If a game does not do that for me then I usually end up just forgetting about it and playing something else. What it takes for me to get immersed in a game is challenge, meaningful consequence, a game has to demand all my attention...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 22h9 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam
I'll be honest, I was looking for something that could be an alternative to Minecraft. Then I found this game. At the beginning, they made the game with Java. That version was really weird, but still playable. This Unity engine version is much more better, in my opinion, and developers seem to really care about their game. Crafting and survival is present, but what this game heavily rellies on is building. You...
A Steam playerRecommendedafter 75hOct 2026early accessRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, e.g. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti, AMD Radeon HD 7770, 20 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Rising World scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/324080/rising-world
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 19, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperJIW-Games
PublisherJIW-Games
GenreRPG
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate